An excellent album of tight little instrumentals – one that features the combination of Lionel Hampton’s vibes with the groovy Chicago soul production of Brunswick [More]
Collaboration is an album by jazz trumpeter Shorty Rogers and pianist André Previn, released by RCA Victor in 1955.     Track listing: All compositions [More]
Ellington at Newport is a 1956 live jazz album by Duke Ellington and His Band of their 1956 concert at the Newport Jazz Festival, a [More]
Track listing: A1 Here’s That Rainy Day 2:38 A2 The Look Of Love 2:20 A3 What Now My Love 2:22 A4 If He Walked Into [More]
Far East Suite is a 1967 concept album by  Duke Ellington, inspired by his group’s tour of Asia. Ellington and longtime collaborator Billy Strayhorn wrote [More]
Mavis Meets Shorty is an album by vocalist Mavis Rivers and trumpeter Shorty Rogers, released on the Reprise label in 1963.     Track listing: [More]
Track listing: 00:00 Slumming on Park Avenue (Remastered 2014) 02:59 Coquette (Remastered 2014) 06:07 The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down (Remastered 2014) 08:55 Ragging the Scale (Remastered [More]
It’s 1938 band that was recreated in stereo in 1968 by Capitol Records, with Shaw conducting and producing, though not playing. Shaw’s clarinet part is [More]
Kenton – Wagner is an album by the Stan Kenton Orchestra performing jazz arrangements of Richard Wagner’s compositions, recorded in 1964 and released by Capitol [More]
The Individualism of Gil Evans is an album by pianist, conductor, arranger and composer Gil Evans originally released on the Verve label in 1964. It [More]